Category Archives: Port Expansion

People located near west coast ports may’ve noticed some huge container ships sitting oddly idle in near shore waters for days on end recently, unable to complete their business in port. A huge quantity of goods belonging to many corporations throughout the world are currently stranded aboard these ships.

Hanjin Shipping is filing for court receivership, the first step towards what will be the largest container line bankruptcy in history – six times larger than the collapse of United States Lines three decades ago, the previous record holder.

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On April 22, 2011 (Mother Earth Day), hundreds of people marched down River Road in North Delta, BC, Canada (unceded Coast Salish Territories) and established the South Fraser Protection Camp — to disrupt a freeway construction site that was destroying the banks of the Fraser River. It was one of the boldest acts of many years of resistance to the Gateway freeway expansion program, and this film is being released now, five years later, to honour all those involved in the struggle.

It’s also being offered as a point of comparison for folks currently engaged in resistance against newer infrastructural atrocities in the area, such as the Kinder Morgan Pipeline expansion, the Massey Tunnel megabridge replacement, and Terminal 2 at Deltaport, as well as coal/LNG/jet fuel terminals in the Fraser Delta, etc.

This film is a DIY, anti-profit, anti-capitalist project. If you like it, please support your local grassroots land defender, or be one yourself. We’re no pros but we made an effort to do this compelling tale justice by stitching together everything from news clips to random footage from crappy cameras. We covered a lot of ground but there is much, much more to know if you care to look, or ask. Freedom for the earth, fire for the freeways!

Surprise announcement buried in 2nd quarter financial report

John Crawford

7/31/2014

A large US energy company has bailed out of a proposed LNG project in Kitimat.

Apache Corporation, based in Houston, Texas, says it’s leaving the project — which was a joint development with Chevron — even though more work has been done on this proposal than on any other natural gas export facility planned for the West Coast.

Site clearing is already underway on Haisla land at Bish Cove. It was to be supplied by the proposed Pacific Trails Pipeline.

Apache has been under pressure from New York hedge fund Jana Partners LLC, an activist investor, to sell assets outside of the United States.

The terminal was to be supplied by the proposed Pacific Trails Pipeline.

Apache says it is also pulling out of a major liquefied natural gas project in Australia.

The company’s surprise announcement came today, buried in its second-quarter financial report.

Shout out to all those resisting exploitation, resource extraction and the state here on Vancouver Island, Sunshine Coast and Lower Mainland.

A crew of autonomous musicians, anarchists, organizers and and general trouble makers are kicking off a tour this July to connect with you. We’re looking to build solidarity and relationships so that together we can stand strong in the face of the industrial Hydra of Fracked Gas, Pipelines, LFG Liquification Facilities, Clearcuts, Tankers and destroy that which destroys us.

Check out our tour dates to see if we’re coming to your community and get in touch if you want to organize a show, workshop, bbq, raucous or to get your hands on some of the publications we be distroing.